The National Association of Health Underwriters is urging its membership to contact their senators to support a bill that would exempt agent and broker commissions from the medical loss ratios controlling health insurers’ spending.

The Maryland Insurance Administration has approved the Cigna‘s acquisition of Bravo Health, a Baltimore, Md.-based operator of Medicare Advantage plans.

The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big I) recently recognized 18 independent insurance agent associations with Excellence in Insurance Education Awards at its education convocation in Minneapolis, Minn.

GMAC Insurance Personal Lines intends to expands its North Carolina presence with the acquisition of an Alabama-based insurance company that has been writing policies exclusively in North Carolina for four years.

Federal health reform rules for health insurance rate reviews, which took effect today (Sept. 1), may not be “strict” enough to protect consumers against insurers’ rate hikes, consumer advocacy groups say.

A Winston-Salem, N.C.-based insurance company announced that its members now can buy homeowner’s and travel insurance, as well as other products, on its website.

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Alfa Insurance, a Montgomery, Ala.-based insurer, is dropping about 73,000 property insurance policies, mostly rental properties, across Alabama in response to the losses it suffered in the April 27 tornadoes.

A federal appeals court in Atlanta, where 26 states will argue against the U.S. Government, is the next stop in the ongoing legal battle over federal health reform.

The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance sent four staff members to assist in Alabama this week as part of a national volunteer effort to assist residents who suffered damages from tornadoes last month.

The tornadoes that hit the U.S. Midwest and Southeast during the last week of April resulted in as much as $6 billion in insured losses, according to a global risk modeling agency.